From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Dynamic loading progress Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2015 12:37:27 -0400 Message-ID: References: <83sie7un20.fsf@gnu.org> <54E0D181.2080802@dancol.org> <83r3trulse.fsf@gnu.org> <54E0D7E0.305@87.69.4.28> <83h9unukbg.fsf@gnu.org> <54E0DEF8.7020901@dancol> <83egpruiyp.fsf@gnu.org> <54E0FF93.2000104@dancol.org> <833865vp4d.fsf@gnu.org> <54E2355A.90@87.69.4.28> <83vbj1u020.fsf@gnu.org> <54E24CA4.9020601@dancol.org> <83h9uk7ddb.fsf@gnu.org> <54E382A5.5030408@dancol.org> <85a8zcu8gn.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <834mpkymrg.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1426610297 29706 80.91.229.3 (17 Mar 2015 16:38:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2015 16:38:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: =?windows-1252?Q?Aur=E9lien?= Aptel , stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 17 17:38:05 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YXuVG-00080R-DB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 17 Mar 2015 17:38:02 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55951 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YXuVF-0004sp-HG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 17 Mar 2015 12:38:01 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48822) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YXuVB-0004sS-50 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Mar 2015 12:37:57 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YXuVA-0005L2-D5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Mar 2015 12:37:57 -0400 Original-Received: from mercure.iro.umontreal.ca ([132.204.24.67]:45966) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YXuV4-0005Jr-U9; Tue, 17 Mar 2015 12:37:50 -0400 Original-Received: from hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca (hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.50]) by mercure.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id A978885EC9; Tue, 17 Mar 2015 12:37:50 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from lechon.iro.umontreal.ca (lechon.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.242]) by hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id D20751E5B8C; Tue, 17 Mar 2015 12:37:27 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: by lechon.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix, from userid 20848) id B5B90B4102; Tue, 17 Mar 2015 12:37:27 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <834mpkymrg.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Tue, 17 Mar 2015 11:52:03 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-DIRO-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-DIRO-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-DIRO-MailScanner-SpamCheck: n'est pas un polluriel, SpamAssassin (score=-2.82, requis 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -2.82, MC_TSTLAST 0.00) X-DIRO-MailScanner-From: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 132.204.24.67 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:183962 Archived-At: > Actually, most accesses to buffer text do precisely that: access one > character at a time. The API typically accepts the buffer position. > Why do you think this is inefficient? For efficient parsing (as done by forward-word, forward-sexp and friends), I think you need to keep both the current "charpos" and "bytepos", but Elisp interfaces don't give access to this level. Stefan